NCAA Tourney Tickets

[shocktheheart]

Anybody know how many tickets WSU gets for the first weekend?

[ISASO]

Typically around 500-600 but they sometimes latch onto allotments from other schools.

[Wild Heiny]

Tickets will likely be hard to come by, especially if KU and WSU are in St. Lou together. They still had some available for the St. Louis regional as of last week when I bought mine, but purchasing comes with some risk as we could be somewhere else, but it is the safest play here if you want to make sure you get in the building.

[Play Angry]

Tickets will likely be hard to come by, especially if KU and WSU are in St. Lou together. They still had some available for the St. Louis regional as of last week when I bought mine, but purchasing comes with some risk as we could be somewhere else, but it is the safest play here if you want to make sure you get in the building.

Yep.

Zero risk that the games sell out in advance if we wind up in San Antonio for some reason. St. Louis, OTOH, looks pretty likely to be full if a person waits until the last minute.

[im4wsu]

Tickets will likely be hard to come by, especially if KU and WSU are in St. Lou together. They still had some available for the St. Louis regional as of last week when I bought mine, but purchasing comes with some risk as we could be somewhere else, but it is the safest play here if you want to make sure you get in the building.

Risk, at least financial, is not really a risk. Last year I sold four tickets on stubhub for $210 gain per seat, so I essentially paid for my trip to Kansas City. I could have sold the other four and paid for a trip to St. Lake.

My tickets came yesterday along with an enclosure on how to sell tickets on ncaaexchange.com. That struck me as odd, that they'd be supporting re-sale.

[shocktheheart]

Risk, at least financial, is not really a risk. Last year I sold four tickets on stubhub for $210 gain per seat, so I essentially paid for my trip to Kansas City. I could have sold the other four and paid for a trip to St. Lake.

My tickets came yesterday along with an enclosure on how to sell tickets on ncaaexchange.com. That struck me as odd, that they'd be supporting re-sale.

Who did you buy them through to begin with?

[pie n eye]

I had no problem getting tickets to Atlanta through WSU last year even with my low priority standing among season ticket holders. Should I worry about being able to get tickets for St Louis through the same method? I want to be there and know a higher level donor who won't be going so I assumed I would be safe. I don't think 5-6 hundred tickets is going to cut it.

[shocktheheart]

I had no problem getting tickets to Atlanta through WSU last year even with my low priority standing among season ticket holders. Should I worry about being able to get tickets for St Louis through the same method? I want to be there and know a higher level donor who won't be going so I assumed I would be safe. I don't think 5-6 hundred tickets is going to cut it.

Probably the difference between a 18,000 seat arena and a 75,000 seat dome.

[martymoose]

I booked my hotel rooms for St. Louis a month ago, that should be a larger concern than tickets to the game.

[WuShock16]

My tickets came yesterday along with an enclosure on how to sell tickets on ncaaexchange.com. That struck me as odd, that they'd be supporting re-sale.

It's not so much that they are supporting re-sale but that if you are going to sell them, they'd like you to do it through their site so that they can get a cut of it.

[shockerofandover0943]

I booked my hotel rooms for St. Louis a month ago, that should be a larger concern than tickets to the game.

Booked mine a little over a week ago. Free cancellation, definitely want to get on that while you still can.

[pie n eye]

Where'd u guys book and at what rate? TIA!

[wsushox1]

Thinking about buying tickets just to sell.

[im4wsu]

Who did you buy them through to begin with?

Months ago I received an email saying the MVC was hosting and I purchased tickets. I think it came from WSU, but don't remember for certain.

[MoValley John]

Months ago I received an email saying the MVC was hosting and I purchased tickets. I think it came from WSU, but don't remember for certain.

The face value of all tickets are set by the NCAA. Each participating school is then allotted roughly 500 tickets to distribute or sell to their fans. After that, the host is free to sell tickets in any manner. Creighton, being the host in Omaha, offers them to season ticket holders, it works really well. The MVC, hosting in St Louis, is free to market them any way they wish, they probably offered them to member schools first. Some regions market better than others, so tickets in some markets are much more difficult than others. In the end, the NCAA doesn't care how tickets are sold as long as they get sold.